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It was published in the official Quest for Glory: Shadows of Darkness Hintbook. It contains the history of Mordavia and is a timeline of events leading up to the beginning of Quest For Glory IV. It gives no specific dates but rather lists the order of events. Some of the specific dates that relate to this timeline appear elsewhere in the hintbook, as well as within the game itself (and in some cases other games in the series).

One of the more noteable aspects of this official timeline is that it clearly shows what appears to be a clear extended period of time of 3/4 years (paradox, anachronism or discrepancy) which occurred in the 'canon' between the time the time the hero disappeared from the Lost City, and years later when the Dark Master and Ad Avis actually cast (finished) the spell that brought him to Mordavia. This order of events clearly contrasts with the equally offical alternate Short timeline.

This timeline is the basis for the Long timeline (which includes information from all the games).
This timeline has been adjusted for historical timing (year 1) rather than astronomical timing (year 0).

The Dark Master summons rainstorms to block off Mordavia from the outside world.

The Dark Master learns that she needs the 'Seven Rituals of Summoning' to draw Avoozl into this world. The Dark Master wants night to last forever, so that she will never be helpless in her coffin again.

The Dark Master locates and takes the Mouth ritual, hidden in the arch by the Dark One's Cave.

The Dark Master and Ad Avis cast Entrapment and Teleport spells to summon a Hero to find the missing Rituals.

The dark magic of the Dark One's Cave distorts the Teleport spell, and thus the Hero appears in the Dark One's Cave itself instead of in the castle.

The Dark Master senses the distortion of her spell, and waits outside the cave to use the Mouth Ritual should the Hero be able to reach the cave mouth. She decides to bide her time and see if she can convince the Hero to help her.

This section includes the above information with more specific dates/infomration from the QFG4 Hintbook, QFG4 and QFG4 manual added in (with additional related material from other QFG games).

Between 300 and 400 years ago

The Boyars come into power in Mordavia. They start collecting records of their rule.[1]

Note: The exact date of when last Boyar disappeared is not known, but he could have disappeared anywhere over or between 74 or 54-57 years before QFG4. Using those dates as starting point one can add the 250 years of Boyar records to come a range of possible dates for when the Boyar's began (304 to 324), but could be older than that but more than likely not less than 300 and over 400 years before QFG4.

74 years ago (70 BQFG)

Ad Avis begins searching for knowledge about the evil Djinn Iblis, and begins to prepare for the day of prophecy of his return in seventy years. He first meets the Dark Master and begins to train with her (QFG2).[2]

Note: In QFG2 Ad Avis says he served the Dark Master for 70 years. In QFG4, Katrina states that he served her 50 years before he left her.

Between 74 and 57 years ago:

Mordavia is ruled by Boyar Sergei Borgov.

Drawn by the magic of this valley, the Mad Monk Amon Tillado brings his 'Cult of the Dark One' into Mordavia.

The Mad Monk convinces Sergei Borgov to join his cult.

The cult constructs the the Dark One Monastery in town.

Note: these dates occur before or at about about 57 years before QFG4 (or at the most 74 years before QFG4), the dates that Ad Avis began searching for power from the Dark Master. They are intended to occur not long before Ad Avis sought out the Dark Master. They are likely only within a few years to a couple of decades at the most before that event or they would be too far removed from the related events that take place after Ad Avis joined the Dark master.

57 years ago (54 BQFG)

In the land of Silmaria, a young wizard (Ad Avis) seeks out the Dark Master to gain forbidden knowledge.[3] She trained the young magician, in the dark arts and gave him "Life Eternal after Death", the mark of the Vampire, but did not kill him, and enslaved him to her will.[4]

Note: Katrina mentions in QFG4 that Ad Avis had been her follower for 50 years until she released him (he fled to Raseir shortly after being released some 1-3 years before QFG2). Depending on when Ad Avis made it to Raseir this date could technically between 54 and 57 years before QFG4.

Between 57 years and 15 years ago

In Mordavia, Amon Tillado grows increasingly mad as he creates the Seven Rituals to Summon Avoozl.

Amon Tillado is found dead in a pool of blood beside the Necrophilicon.

Borgov takes over the cult, and conceals copies of the rituals throughout the land, retaining the only copy of the Essence Ritual himself.

Note: These events occur after Ad Avis sought out the Dark Master and thus must take place less than 54-57 years before QFG4 (or less than 74 years at the most). The earliest of these events likely didn't take much more than a few years after the related events set before Ad Avis joined the Dark Master, otherwise they would be too far removed from each other.

Note: The Dark Master moves into Mordavia (and likely into the empty castle) before Anna died (likely after Piotyr was killed, or he likely would have looked into the rumors), she would have left later (but in total she lived decades there).

Note: Dr. Cranium would have have had to have moved into the valley before Anna died. It is unknown if the Dark Master came to Mordavia before or after Cranium did (but it would have had to have been before Anna's death to be decades, although Anna does not comment on any strangers).

25 years ago (21 BQFG)

Anna was out gathering berries in the forest when she was killed by a monster (alternate date for Anna's death in InterAction magazine).

Note: This is an alternate date for when Anna died. It doesn't seem to fit with Cranium's state, or comments when Nikolai started hunting for his missing wife. But its included here for completeness.

15 years ago (11 BQFG)

Anna dies in the forest while out looking for berries for Dr. Cranium (QFG4).[6]

Nikolai mind starts to deteriorate and he starts looking for his dead wife.

Note:Olga and Boris married some point before the Dark Master again moved into Mordavia, and before the rains began.

8 years ago (4 BQFG)

Tanya is born.

7 years ago (3 BQFG)

Ad Advis is released from Katrina's service (QFG4). Ad Avis fled to Raseir, hoping to gain enough power that he would never die and have to serve Katrina. He became Vizier to the Emir of Raseir (QFG2, QFG4 Hintbook, 30, 44)[9]

Note: It is explained elsewhere QFG4 Hintbook that Ad Avis fled to Raseir right after he was released. He made it to Raseir 1-3 years before Iblis prophecy, and took over (QFG1EGA[10], QFG2).

5 years ago (1 BQFG)

Years later, the Dark Master enters Mordavia, drawn by the lure of the dark magic and rumors of Avoozl. She takes over Castle Borgov. Katrina moved into Castle Borgov in Mordavia five years ago because she heard rumors of the Cult of the Dark One (QFG4 Hintbook, pg 30).[11]

Gypsies move into Mordavia after hearing rumors that the Borgov family was again inhabiting Borgov Castle. They brought their wagons to Mordavia, thinking that the old Boyar's son had returned, and they could trade with him again.[12] Initially they had very little luck contacting anyone, and they would have left early but flooding affected their travel[13].

Ad Avis overthrows the Emir of Vizier, sets up his own puppet, and becomes the true ruler of the kingdom. (QFG2)

Note: The QFG4 hintbook places the date of when Dark Master moved into Castle Borgov at 5 years before QFG4, the Gypsies also confirm this date. Gypsy Davey seems to claim that they would have left early, but rains had already flooded the pass. Magda later claims that they couldn't leave because rains destroyed the road shortly after they met the Gatekeeper (about two years later).

4 years ago (1 QFG)

Ad Avis is killed in Raseir, and the Dark Master summons his body to Mordavia, so that he will be her Vampire Slave (QFG2 ends).

Vampiric strangers including Ad Avis moves into the castle(QFG4).[14] The pass to Mordavia is blocked and Mordavian coinage bottoms out (QFG3).[15]

The townspeople hear new rumors of vampires, lead by a stranger, a Dark Master who moved into the castle.(QFG4).[16]

The Hero saves Tarna (QFG3).

Erasmus learns of the Dark Master had settled into Mordavia, making it dangerous for tourists that year.

The Adventurer's Guild is locked up around this time, as very few to no adventurers could make it past the treacherous swamp (but not before a copy of the HERO Magazine, Issue IV, is put into the guild's bookshelf).[17]

After two years, the Gypsies, having never saw any sign of the Boyar's son, finally meet the Gatekeeper and trade with him, soon after the rains began to fall. They were stuck in the valley since flooding washed out the road.[19][20]

Note: The gypsies apparently moved in before Boris became Gatekeeper some two years before, and before the rains were summoned (though technically Boris states that the swamp was there before he left his wife.[21]). The innkeeper states that they have been living in the valley for many years.

2 years ago (2 QFG):

The Dark Master has the monster Toby lure the 6-year old Tanya from Hotel Mordavia in town.[22]

Tanya becomes the Dark Master's 'daughter'.

Following rumors, Yuri Markarov looked for his daugther at the Gypsy camp, but found no sign of her there.[23]

1 year ago (4 QFG)

Dr. Cranium receives the last shipment of supplies before the pass becomes impassible.[24]

Present (5 QFG)

Dr. Cranium travels Spielburg during the Summer to collect Antwerp samples, from an antwerp explosion during the spring (QFG4). Soon after the pass is completely blocked (QFG4).[25]

The Dark Master summons rainstorms to block off Mordavia from the outside world.

The Dark Master learns that she needs the 'Seven Rituals of Summoning' to draw Avoozl into this world. The Dark Master wants night to last forever, so that she will never be helpless in her coffin again.

The Dark Master locates and takes the Mouth ritual, hidden in the arch by the Dark One's Cave.

The Dark Master and Ad Avis cast Entrapment and Teleport spells to summon a Hero to find the missing Rituals.

The dark magic of the Dark One's Cave distorts the Teleport spell, and thus the Hero appears in the Dark One's Cave itself instead of in the castle.

The Dark Master senses the distortion of her spell, and waits outside the cave to use the Mouth Ritual should the Hero be able to reach the cave mouth. She decides to bide her time and see if she can convince the Hero to help her.

Note: The timing of the rains is given differently by different characters. Boris and Tanya suggest it happened before she was kidnapped.[27] While Gypsy Magda suggests it occured after Gatekeeper was hired, or possibly after Tanya., Dr. Cranium and QFG4 hintbook seem to suggest it was blocked off after Tanya was kidnapped. Also note that the exact timing of when Katrina learned about the Seven Rituals, or when she found the Mouth Ritual are not clear, and could have occured as early as two years before before QFG4, or shortly before QFG4 begins (after Dr. Cranium made his trip to Spielburg). it is also known that it has been raining for at least a few years.[28]The HERO Journal issue suggests valley was already flooded when it was published, and notes Katrina moved into the valley within the year of its printing (a copy was locked away in the Adventurer's Guild for several years since the floods, as well as a stairstepper advertised in the issue).

Katrina lives in Mordavia for decades, and believed herself the ruler there (perhaps implying that was living in the castle). She would have had to live there at least 20 years. She was certainly living in the castle before Anna died, some 15 years before QFG4. Perhaps she lived there as early as when the Borgov's were living there. But after they died off, she certainly believed herself to be the new ruler.(QFG5). More than likely she moved in after Pyotyr was killed, or he more than likely would have persued any rumors of her moving into the area.[30]

Note: QFG4 confirms that Katrina moved into castle between 5 and 4 years before QFG4. But apparently as the Dark Master lived there as far back as 15 years ago (maybe 25 years ago, see alternate date above for Anna's death) (though they thought that was someone else, a man). QFG5's information could suggest she moved there much earlier, or at least lived in the land early on. It says she had been living there for decades. The Time Line above also shows that she was living in Silmaria (suggests it was her homeland, this could easily been 50 or 70 years ago) for a while when Ad Avis met her.

The date of Tanya's birth in relation to her becoming a vampire.

Tanya is apparently 'six years old' in QFG4 (this is apparently her physical age, not her real age). In the game Tanya was kidnapped 2 years before QFG4. She has not aged at all as a vampire child (her actual age would be around 8). This would mean she would have been born 6 years before QFG1 (see below).

In this timeline, some events may have been given more than one date. Many of these fall into order fine, by following the timeline's context, that QFG4 takes place 3-4 years after QFG3. However, the timing of when the rain began, has the worst issues in this time line's order of events, as there are several references to when it began and when it ended from various characters points of view in the the game, as well as the view given in this timeline.

Inside the Adventurer's Guild is an old copy of the Hero Magazine : Issue IV - The Journal of General Job Adjusting, the same issue included in the QFG4 box. According to the Burgomeister, the Adventure's guild has been abandoned for many years, since the swamp. Which suggests it had to be published at least 4-5 years before the game.[31][32] Inside the physical issue there is an article with Erasmus that may suggest that the issue was published the same year that the Dark Master moved into Mordavia[33]. It also mentions that the swamp is already blocking the pass, and that events in Tarna had already taken place[34]. Therefore it had to have been brought in by one of the few adventurers who found a way past the swamp that the Burgomeister mentions, before he locked up the guild (it cannot include the adventurers who wrote the articles most likely, as they apparently made it back out). In addition the Adventurer's guild has one of the stair steppers advertised in the issue, and its been there a while collecting dust. So who ever brought the issue in, must have also ordered the stair stepper and brought it in as well. In the game there are several lines that discuss there is no sign of activity in the guild, it is in need of maintenance, and is falling apart/cracks all over the place, that its covered in thick layers of dust of years, and it contrasts that with the Thieves' guild which in contrast has seen more activity (little dust and Chief Thief is still there).

The journal & stair stepper are several years old, and the events of QFG2 and QFG3 occur before Boris became the gatekeeper in this Time Line. This would place these events and details three years or more before QFG4.

According to Boris Stovich the rains began before he left his wife Olga. According to the Magda, the rains began after they began trading with the gatekeeper[35], according to Davey it was just after they entered the valley, according to Tanya the rains began before she was kidnapped, according to History of Events the rains began after she was kidnapped. According to the money changer in QFG3 the pass was blocked during that game (as much as four years before according to this timeline). Cranium seems to suggest that he's gotten supplies from the pass over a year ago (apparently within the second year before the game based on his wording). Most characters agree it rained a "few years" or "many years", so it had to be at least two years. It could not be any less and was apparently more than that.

Perhaps the blocking of the path was gradual, first the roads were washed out, blocking any wagon travel. Then according to Dmitri what was left of the road became overgrown with plants and/or flooded by the swamp[36], perhaps blocking off all foot travel. Once completely blocked off, not even adventurers could get in, and the guild was locked up.

It is also clear, that for Katrina to have lived in Mordavia for decades she would have had to live there for at least 20 years.

QFG2 says that Ad Avis served Katrina for seventy years, and QFG4 says that Ad Avis served Katrina for only 50 years. Katrina in QFG4 implies that he met and served her 50 years, until she grew bored of him. It may be possible to interpret that Ad Avis met the Dark Master and joined her 70 years ago, around the time he learned about Iblis for the first time (then left 20 years later). Although that would still be a problem as he technically wasn't serving her during last twenty years period, and it took him a long while before he finally made it to Raseir and got into power.

However, the QFG4 hintbook, and ingame suggests that Ad Avis headed to and over Raseir about the same time he was released from Katrina to prepare for coming Iblis. Also according to information in QFG1EGA and QFG2 Ad Avis may have entered Raseir between 1-3 years before QFG2 which would affect the date (Shameen says they moved away from Raseir three years before QFG1, in QFG2 they say they left around the time things were turning bad in Raseir, and Ferrari says he moved into Raseir one and half years before QFG2 as the situation was right for his line of work[37], finally the Emir disappeared one year before QFG2 and Ad Avis took control[38][39]). Likewise Dahab Khalis[40] and the katta in QFG5 suggest that things were bad in Raseir for several years.[41]

Another possiblity is that Ad Avis studied under the Dark Master for twenty years, then challenged Katrina, at which point he was enslaved, and forced to serve her without choice for another 50 years. These details and interpretations would affect the order of some of the events.

One other thing of note is that this timeline of events, and elsewhere in the QFG4 Hintbook suggests that Ad Avis was given life eternal after death, and was first enslaved, while he was with the Dark Master in Silmaria, and that she came to Mordavia sometime afterwords. But was still 'living' up to his physical death, when he arose as a nosferatu.

How long Ad Avis has lived in the castle since his death is not clear. In QFG4 there are references that may suggest that he moved in several years before the game, one character (Olga) suggests that the strangers (plural) to the castle moved in four years before the game, a stranger (singular), but also talks of 'vampires' plural, however, the Dark Master apparently had lived their much longer (at least 15 years before, based on information from Dr. Cranium, possibly as far back as 25 years ago if InterAction date is utilized) according to accounts by Anna and Nikolai. In fact there are references when the Hero encounters the Wizard, that suggest a long period of time had occurred since they had met.[42] The only 'strangers' (but not strangers to him) living in the castle as confirmed by Boris Stovich, is the Master (Katrina), the strange foreigner (Ad Avis), the Master's daughter (actually Tanya), and two rather strange guards (Goon Guards). There is also Toby, and one must include the Gatekeeper himself. However, it should be noted as clarified by many character comments when they say 'strangers' they mean vampires (and do not know about any other inhabitants, although some know about Toby, but not where he lives). In this case they mean at least the Dark Master, and Ad Avis.[43]

According to this timeline 3-4 years passed between the point when Ad Avis died, and when the game begins. It is unclear why it took the hero so long to be transported from the Lost City, until the point in time that he was deposited in the Dark One's cave. At first appearances it is unclear if this was due to speed of the spell and distance being travelled to, time dilation, time travel or that the teleport spell took a very long time to to complete by the casters.

There are references within QFG4 that seem to support that much time passed between QFG2 and QFG4.[44] As well as in QFG5.[45] In addition there is the Hero Journal and stair stepper evidence in QFG4. However, references to antwerp explosions before the games in QFG4 and QFG5 would suggest a one year interpretation. Either case there is a bit of an anachronism or discrepency going on.

Strangely, this timeline clearly shows that the Dark Master and Ad Avis actually had cast (or finished casting) the spell to teleport the Hero several years after he had already vanished from the Lost City (which may show a clear paradox). Or at least they had been working on the spell for several years, and it took several years to complete.

If this situation shows clear case of time dilation within the spell (time moving faster outside the spell than inside of it), or actual time travel (hero literally is summoned from the past by individuals from the future, and brought forward 3-4 years into the future), or that time actually moves at different rates in individual lands, bubbles of isolated time periods is unclear (see Lost in Space movie or the Sea of Time in Chrono Cross for examples).

As Corey Cole points out that at least in original intent, there was no idea of Time Travel considered, and that the stories were intended to take in a linear fashion over an unspecified amount of time (suggesting that not even the "one year" chronology as shown in the Short timeline is specifically set in stone) and that the series may take place over longer than a year;

Ref time travel - If the designers count when it comes to canon, I can say that no time travel was intended. As far as we're concerned, the five-game Quest for Glory series takes place in linear order, with an unspecified amount of time between each pair of games. The Hero does not necessarily arrive immediately in the next adventure location.

The only possible ambiguity is the question of how the Dark Master's summoning spell worked. That is not well defined, so time or alternate-universe travel is possible. If so, Erasmus's spell that transports the Hero to Silmaria might have "cleaned up" the dimensional side-effects of the Dark Master's spell.[46]

In a later comment, he said more things that indicate that a 'strict' single-year timeline may not have been in the works;

Shadows of Darkness was originally planned to be Quest for Glory III, but I'm not sure that affects the timeline. The Hero would have gone to Mordavia a few months, possibly a year, after his desert adventures.

Another implication of this is that a much longer period of time may have passed between QFG1 and 2 than is made clear (as well as longer periods between transportation spells in other games).

Concerning Tanya's age:

Tanya was stuck in the form of a six year old child.

Also, don't assume that Tanya was kidnapped recently just because she's a small child. She's been that exact same age for quite a long, indeterminate time, several years at least.

Note that her parents are, or appear to be, middle-aged. Once again, you can't draw too much inference from that as circumstances have aged them prematurely. They could be as young as early 30's or as old as mid-40's. They were a young couple when Tanya was born.-Corey Cole

Some of Lori's later quotes support the idea that time may function differently under the influence of magic, and supports this by pointing out that fairy lands function at a different rate of time (Mordavia actually lies within Eastern Woods a land of the fairies). This hearkens back to some of the earlier explanations made in Force wave concept time flows differently in different countries due to the effects of the force magic wave, as sort of pocket universes, see also Convergence concept.

An interesting possible side effect to Corey's explanation (about time and/or dimensional travel) and "cleaned-up dimensional side effects" is that could mean that the Hero might have traveled through time 'twice" once to the future, and again back to the past to "year 1, 1 QFG shortly after events of QFG3". This would suggest that realms like Hades (much like WIT) exist outside of time and touch all points in time and space simultaneously, from a non-linear perspective. A side effect to this is the possibility assuming the Hero saves Katrina in QFG5 that there are two Katrinas for hext three years in the same universe. Katrina (a) who is the vampire living in Mordavia, and will die in 3-4 years, and Katrina (b) reborn back to the world and given a second chance coexisting in the same time period but separate spaces of the world. Likewise assuming Erana was saved then Erana (a) spirit is still trapped in the Limbo (World Between Worlds) simultaneously to the period of time that Erana is reborn back on the earth and given a second chance to live a long life again.

↑The bookshelves are full of incredibly exciting works such as 250 years of Boyar ledgers and 1st grade writing samples

↑Ad Avis (QFG2): "Do you know how long I have awaited this moment? Seventy years! Seventy years I have served the Dark Master while watching for the stars to align. Seventy years I have spent learning the magic that controls men's minds and waiting for a fool to fulfill the prophecy for me.", "No! After 70 years, No!"

↑Katrina (QFG4): "He came to me many years ago to learn from one called the 'Dark Master.' What he didn't know was the Dark Master was a woman; he was quite appalled by the fact. He challenged me to a magical duel and lost. I made him my servant for fifty years until I grew bored with him and turned him loose. But I had bitten him, and he knew that on his death he would rise again as a Vampire under my command. He has served me since the night you defeated him."

↑QFG4 Hintbook;"Many years ago, she trained a young magician, Ad Avis, in the dark arts. He hated women, and this amused her. She gave him "Life Eternal after Death", the mark of the Vampire, but did not kill him. "

↑Innkeeper: "Dr. Cranium came to Mordavia several years before the swamp closed off the pass."

↑Dr. Cranium (QFG4):My neighbor Nikolai is not actually as old as he now appears. He has been very unhappy since his wife's disappearance some 15 years ago. I can understand his dissapointment; she never brought back the berries I needed in an experiment."

↑Burgomeister (QFG4): "I have been looking after him for so many years...", "His wife has been missing for years now."

↑Olga Stovich (QFG4): "Old Nikolai has been crazy for years...It's been years since Anna's been gone, before I even was married...Boris and I used to double-date with them...", Nikolai: "She married Boris Stovich, who owned the shop."

↑QFG4 Hintbook:"He fled from her, but not before she gave him the "gift" of "Life Eternal after Death" by biting him and forcing him to drink her own blood. He traveled to Raseir where he pulled his power play and took over the city, hoping to gain enough power that he would never die and have to serve Katrina. He knew from his research that the time would soon be right to release the terrible Marad Iblis, and that he needed a Hero to find Iblis in the Forbidden City".

↑Shameen (QFG1EGA): "I have run this inn for three years now, with Shema."

↑QFG4 Hintbook, pg 30: "She moved into Castle Borgov in Mordavia five years ago because she heard rumors of the Cult of the Dark One."

↑Gypsy Fortune Teller Magda: When we heard rumors that Borgov Castle was again inhabited, we brought our wagons to Mordavia. We thought perhaps the old Boyar's son had returned, and we could trade with him again.", Gypsy Davy: "I have run in this forest for many years, and I know my way around.", "We would have left this valley long ago, if the flooding had not washed out away the road and filled the mountain pass with swamp.","We have been in this camp for nearly five years. This is very hard on wanderers like us.","Innkeeper (QFG4):"There have been gypsies camped to the northeast of town for many years now, and we have had no trouble from them.", "It was an ill day when our tribe traveled to this valley. We used to trade freely with the people of the castle years ago."

↑Olga Stovich (QFG4): "The castle north of town was abandoned for many years. Then some strangers moved in four years ago.", ""

↑Dahab Khalis diologue: "...and that the exchange rate has bottomed out for the Mordavian coinage, since no one can travel in or out of the country now."

↑Nikolai (QFG4): "It has been so long, and I know so little of what goes on today. Still, some time ago there was talk in town about a stranger moving into Borgov Castle. There was much talk, and many rumors about who had moved in.", "There was some talk of Vampires at the time. I do not think anyone in Mordavia was actually killed by a Vampire, so gradually the talk faded.", "I do not think anyone even saw the stranger. We knew him only as 'the Dark Master.' It is an ominous title.", Burgomeister:"", Olga: ""

↑Dmitri Ivanov: "The old Adventurers' Guild is at the north end of town. It has been abandoned for many years, since we have not had many adventurers who could cross the swamp.", "The Adventurers' Guild is in the north part of town, but it's closed and boarded up. There have been no adventurers here since the road was flooded.", Olga Stovich: "There used to be a very active Adventurers' Guild here in town, but it's been empty and locked up since I can remember."

↑Olga Stovich (QFG4): "My sad, departed husband? His name was Boris. Gone three years now."

↑Magda: "We met with the Gatekeeper, who said that the Borgov family was dead. The castle was now owned by a distant cousin... We did some trading with the Gatekeeper, but never saw sign of this Borgov cousin. Soon after this, the rains started to fall, and we were trapped here.", Gypsy Davy: "I have run in this forest for many years, and I know my way around.", "We would have left this valley long ago, if the flooding had not washed out away the road and filled the mountain pass with swamp."

↑Innkeeper (QFG4):"There have been gypsies camped to the northeast of town for many years now, and we have had no trouble from them."

↑Boris Stovich (QFG4):"Lazy? What was there to do in the shop with no customers? Once the swamp cut trade off trade here, we had nothing to sell.", "I had nothing to do there. So just because I would sit at the inn and talk with other men, she thought I was lazy?.

↑QFG4 Hintbook, 32: "His daughter was stolen away one night two years ago under mysterious circumstances.", Olga Stovich: "Yuri hasn't been the same since his daughter was stolen away two years ago.",Yuri Markarov: "Two years ago, Tanya was stolen from her bedroom one night.", Bella Markarov: "She was lured away from here one night two years ago and no one has seen her since." (QFG4)

↑Inkeeper (QFG4):"There were rumors that the gypsies had stolen Tanya away, but when I went to their camp, I found no sign of her."

↑Dr. Cranium (QFG4): The heavy rains the last few years have put a damper on the local economy--the only road out of the valley has become covered by an endless and impassible swamp. I have not received a single delivery of scientific equipment this year."

↑Dr. Cranium (QFG4): "I spent some time in Spielburg last summer.", "I went on an Antwerp-gathering expedition a few months ago" "...there was an Antwerp population explosion last spring."

↑Bonehead (QFG4):"Baba Yaga came from a place a bit to the east of here, but she always had a soft spot for this little valley. Said there was a lot of Dark Magic about this place, so she thought she'd spend the winter here before moving back home."

↑Tanya:"The rains came and people didn't come to the Inn anymore. Daddy said there were too many Bad Things."

↑Dr. Cranium :"The heavy rains of the last few years have also put a damper on the local economy -- the only road out of the valley has become covered by an endless and impassable swamp."

↑Katrina (QFG5):"Mordavia was my home for decades. I considered myself to be liege lord there. I had not intended to harm the people there. I just did not realize that my summoning of the Dark One would destroy Mordavia."

↑"The old Adventurers' Guild is at the north end of town. It has been abandoned for many years, since we have not had many adventurers who could cross the swamp."

↑QFGTASG, pg 296: "The place was very dusty. No adventurer had been in here in some time.", "...walked over to the nearby bookshelf and picked up an old copy of HERO Magazine. It had some articles on Mordavia that were well worth reading."

↑Journal, pg. "Well, nobody knows for sure, but rumor has it that the Dark Master is currently holed up in an abandoned castle somewhere in the Land of Mordavia. It might be best for tourists to avoid that area this year."

↑Journal, pg:"There is but one pathway to this valley and as it is currently cut off by a mephitic and quagmire-filled swamp, entrance to Mordavia is rather difficult.", Journal, pg. "He has distinguished himself through Heroism and clever use of spells in lands ranging from Spielburg to Shapeir and Tarna."

↑Magda: "When we heard rumors that the Borgov Castle was again inhabited, we brought our wagons to Mordavia...We met with the Gatekeeper, who said that the Borgov family was dead. The castle was now owned by a distant cousin... We did some trading with the Gatekeeper, but never saw sign of this Borgov cousin. Soon after this, the rains started to fall, and we were trapped here."

↑Dmitri Ivanov: ""The old road from town used to meet with the road from the castle and head south to the pass. The heavy rains not only created the swamp, but caused so much plant growth you can't see the road anymore."

↑Ferrari (QFG2): "I came to Raseir a little over a year and a half ago. A man of my stature has no problem making a profit out of any situation."

↑QFG Anthology Manual, pg 20: "During the past year, the Emir (governor) of Raseir is rumored to have disappeared...", Abdulla Doo (QFG2): "It seems my friend Arus Al-Din has been missing almost a year now.", Poet Omar (QFG2): "The true Emir of Raseir vanished last year at this same time", "A tale is told of this time last year, That Magic caused the man to disappear. A brother now is ruling in Raseir, and no one knows the fate of the Emir.", Aziza (QFG2): "Raseir was like a twin to Shapeir until a year ago this month. The Emir Arus was overthrown and disappeared." Ferarri (QFG2): "The fountain of Raseir dried up last year around the time that the Emir first was missed.

↑Sharaf (QFG2):"The Katta were driven from their home in Raseir last year."

↑Dahab Khalis (QFG3): "My family and I moved here many years ago from Raseir.","I was once the money changer of Raseir, but when Ad Avis took over, I moved with my family to Tarna.", "I left Raseir to get away from such violence. I am too old to leave Tarna now."

↑Marrak (QFG5): "Several years ago, my people were driven from our homeland and scattered with the winds by a most evil man who usurped the throne of Rasier from its rightful Emir. I have heard word that my homeland has been freed by a Hero, and the land is now ruled by a wise and gracious women."

↑Dmitri Ivanov: "Some strangers moved in some years back, but they have had nothing to do with the town, and we have had nothing to do with them.", "Olga: The castle north of town was abandoned for many years. Then some strangers moved in four years ago. No one knows what goes on there now, but it won't be for the good, I'll tell you.", Ad Avis (QFG4): "It's been ages since we last met. Come here and let me look at you.", Katrina (QFG4): "I do believe you are jealous. Is that because this Hero stopped you from summoning Iblis so long ago?", Baba Yaga (QFG4):"That would be telling now, wouldn't it? I hear someone there is an old 'friend' of yours, though."

↑Olga Stovich: "Vampires, is it? There's talk that those strangers up in Castle Borgov are never seen by day, and can't abide the smell of good old garlic."

↑Ad Avis (QFG4): "It's been ages since we last met.", Katrina (QFG4): "I do believe you are jealous. Is that because this Hero stopped you from summoning Iblis so long ago?", Baba Yaga (QFG4):"That would be telling now, wouldn't it? I hear someone there is an old 'friend' of yours, though."

↑Narrator (QFG5): "The white hair in his mane shows that your dear friend Rakeesh has aged since last you saw him, but he still bears the unmistakable aura of strength and nobility."